Leaders of tech Q&A

In this Leaders of Tech interview, we speak to emerging leader Nicole Darabian, Senior Associate, International Policy (cyber & tech) at Ofcom. Nicole discusses trending cyber and tech policy issues, cultivating a culture of shared responsibility to tackle cyber security and sustainability in the ICT sector.

Sarai Faleupolu Tevita is the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Director at the National University of Samoa. Sarai discusses how she got her start in the internet governance sector, her experience as an ICANN fellow and the importance of advocating for the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance.

Emily Taylor is the CEO and Founder of the DNS Research Federation, a not-for-profit that provides technical and policy research and insights to support the domain name system (DNS). We sat down with Emily at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kyoto, Japan in October 2023.

Hirofumi Hotta is a Board Director and the Senior Executive Vice-President at Japan Registry Services Co (JPRS), the organisation responsible for operating .jp, the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Japan.

With a constant stream of emerging digital tech, protecting the safety of Australians online is a mounting challenge. Read our latest Leaders of Tech interview with eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant who takes us through how the regulator is tackling these hurdles, including the importance of a proactive and systemic approach. 

In the latest edition of our Leaders of tech Q&A, we hear from Minister for Communications the Hon Michelle Rowland MP. Minister Rowland shares her insights on the criticality of the domain name system (DNS) to Australia, government reform in response to recent high profile cyberattack, and the importance of Australia’s re-election to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

We recently had the privilege of interviewing Byron Holland, President and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), auDA’s Canadian counterpart. Byron shared his thoughts on CIRA’s latest innovations, the importance of multi-stakeholder internet governance model and building a trusted internet.